The Board of Pensions recently concluded its 2013 Eastern and Western/Central Regional Benefits Consultations (RBCs), at which the Rev. Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, was a featured speaker.

The Changing Church was the topic of two consecutive panel discussion sessions led by Parsons and Robert W. Maggs Jr., President and Chief Executive of the Board of Pensions.

For details on Day 2 of the Western/Central RBC, read the news article on pensions.org., which also contains a link to Rev. Parsons’s Power Point presentation, The Changing Church, or watch this video of his presentation.

Watch Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk of the PC(USA), give a presentation recorded at the Eastern Regional Benefits Consultations in Philadelphia for the Board of Pensions.

Transcript:

"Last year in this presentation I lifted up four Biblical metaphors, journey metaphors, and one that I think fits where we are as a Church is the whole story of the Church on the road to Antioch. And the story is, basically, after Stephen was elected Deacon he became a well known speaker, got noticed, unfortunately too much and so he was stoned and there was this persecution of the Church and the ...

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